A New Order of Things

The case for pricing carbon
There were respectable reasons to vote against the Liberals in the recent federal election. Doing so because of their carbon taxing proposals was not one of them. That many Canadians voted against Stéphane Dion’s “Green Shift” and that both Jack Layton and Stephen Harper thought it electorally advantageous to oppose carbon taxing says something deeply depressing about Canadians’ refusal to grapple with a major international problem.

John Richards is a member of the faculty in the Graduate Public Policy School at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He has written extensively on social policy in Canada, primarily via the C.D. Howe... Read More